What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening. —Trump

This is postmodernism—the notion that there is no truth outside of ourselves; there is no reality outside of ourselves. There are only the constructs that we invent. The notion that truth is something you invent, rather than something you discover, is a typically postmodern approach to the world. —Cheney

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the last day after his arrival; he will come not on the last day but on the very last. —Franz Kafka

the truth can just as easily be founded upon a fiction as a fact.

Timeline I. 1850–1900 Melville, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche: God is dead, and we have killed him. II. 1917–1945 WWI and WWII: Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, et al.: There is no “essence”; there is only existence—being and then nothingness: only Sisyphus pushing his boulder up and down the mountain until he dies; nothing “matters” absolutely; implicitly,

The nineteenth century’s question: Can we get truth without God?

Stories are all we have and may the best story win, which is more or less a get-out-of-jail-free card for Trump, Putin, Surkov, Bannon, Bolsonaro, Erdoğan, Xi, Orbàn, Modi.

Thought is the gateway to despair. —Bertrand Russell The only serious question is whether to commit suicide. —Albert Camus Life seems to be over.

with each selfie we take, every moment in which we ignore our actual condition, we reproduce the crisis that Beckett expresses in FILM.